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360pp. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth. Colour frontis. and illustrations. A fine copy in slipcase.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. First Edition. The first two volumes of the four volume set. Volume I - Proceedings of the First Expedition. 1826-1830 under command of Captain P. Parker King. xxviii, 2 l., 597pp; Vol. II. - Proceedings of the Second Expedition, 1831-1836 under the command of Captain Robert Fitzroy. xiv, 1 l., 694p, addenda, 41 plates including 2 frontispieces, lacking the four loose folding maps (2 maps in each volume) and the "Chart of a part of South America" in volume I. Volume II is lacking the title page but has the half-title page. Browning mostly front portions of both books and plates, some old marginal damp stains, both books in full tree calf bindings, recased with new marbled endpapers, using original spine strips, lower half of Vol. II spine strip sympathetically replaced. Gilt monogram of General Assembly library on both volumes. Please enquire if you are interested in purchasing volumes separately.…

First Edition. FITZROY, Robert, [editor]. KING, Capt. Philip Parker, [contributor]. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. In three [i.e., four] volumes. London: Henry Colburn, 1839. Full Description: [DARWIN, Charles, and others]. [FITZROY, Robert, editor]. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. In three [i.e., four] volumes. London: Henry Colburn, 1839. First edition, with Volume III comprising the first edition, first issue of Darwin's first published book. Four octavo volumes, including appendix to Volume II. xxviii, [4], 597, [3, blank]; xiv, [2], 694, [1], [1, blank]; viii, 352; xiv, 608, [609]-629 (addenda), [609]-615 (index), [1, blank] pp. Volume I with seventeen plates, including frontispiece and one folding, and two folding maps bound at rear. Volume II with twenty-five plates and maps, including frontispiece, and two folding maps bound at rear. Appendix to Volume II with six charts and diagrams and two folding maps bound at rear. Volume III with two folding maps bound at front and two more bound at the rear, plus four woodcuts in the text. All half-titles called for present. Bound without publisher's ads at end of Appendix. Contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards, spines with gilt and blind tooled bands and gilt lettering, green-gray endpaper, top edges gilt. Minor old dampstain to lower blank margin of last volume. Frontispiece of first volume with outer margin a bit trimmed. Previous ower's bookplates to front pastedowns of each volume. Overall an excellent set, very bright and fresh, of this monumental work. One of the most famous nineteenth-century accounts of voyages of exploration, "[Darwin's] first published book is undoubtedly [his] most often read and stands second only to On the origin of species as the most often printed. It is an important travel book in its own right and its relation to the background of his evolutionary ideas has often been stressed.The first issue forms, as is well known, the third volume of The narrative of the voyages of H.M. Ships Adventure and Beagle, edited by Captain Robert Fitzroy and published, in three volumes and an appendix to Volume II, in 1839. In this form, it bears the subsidiary title Journal and remarks. Since then it has changed its name four times, so that today it is universally referred to as The voyage of the Beagle" (Freeman, Darwin, pp. 31-32). Freeman, Darwin, 10. Hill I, pp. 104-105. Norman Library 584. HBS 69647. $45,000. KING, Capt. Philip Parker; FITZROY, Robert (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. , Volume I xxviii, [4], 597 pp +errata. Volume II xiv [2], 694 pp. Appendix Volume,viii, 352 pp., 54 black and white plates which include 7 folding maps (6 of which are loose). The loose maps are all facsimiles and not originals. First Edition , rebound, all three books in similar condition, externally clean and sound, a few small repairs to preliminary pages, a little scattered foxing to plates, vol 2 has water stains to early plates, overall in very good condition , quarter cream and pale blue paper over boards, black titles to spine labels, new endpapers , Octavo, 23.5 cm x 15 cm Hardback ISBN.…